Näitlejas on tallel tema varasemad rollid, ta hoiab need ärkvel, mängib uuesti läbi, uurib ja võrdleb neid, seostab neid oma mineviku- ja olevikukogemusega.
What needs to be remembered, however, was that such preparation was not so much about technical training, which Stanislavsky equated with dressage, as about the actor’s thoughtful, conscious, and probing ‘work on himself’.